Actress Marisol Nichols Returns to Her Hometown of Chicago Armed with Effective Solutions to Society’s Problems
Actress Marisol Nichols Returns To Her Hometown Of Chicago Armed with Effective Solutions to Society’s Problems. US Premiere of "ABLE International's World Solutions Exhibit - new solutions for drugs, education & criminal reform
Chicago, IL (PRWEB) August 11, 2006
Marisol Nichols, TV and Film star, who prepared for her role in Stephen Bochco's Blind Justice on ABC by beating the streets on patrol with the NYPD, has become a dedicated supporter of the effective solutions to society’s ills offered in the traveling “World Solutions Exhibition”, which she hosted at the Union League Club in her hometown of Chicago. The Exhibit is sponsored by the Association for Better Living and Education International and stopped in Chicago as part of its world tour.
It was during her experience with the NYPD that Ms. Nichols first witnessed the almost fruitless results of America’s current penal system. A system where dedicated law enforcement officers risk their lives to lock away criminals, only to have them re-released months, years or sometimes days later.
While Chicago’s crime rate has gone down between 1990 and 2000, the murder rate is above the national average. There are 125,000 gang members and drug sales in Chicago generate an estimated $500 billion per year. Illinois expenditures of $1.30 billion annually result in a 44% recidivism rate – criminals becoming more criminal.
Ms. Nichols – who has also starred in "Resurrection Boulevard", "Vegas Vacation", "Big Momma's House 2", ABC's "In Justice", and is about to start playing as the head of CTU on Fox TV's"24" - decided to help by providing effective life skills programs to inmates through Criminon, so that when offenders are released they become productive citizens instead of more hardened criminals. “The way you end social problems of criminality – individual by individual – is through these programs”, she said. “I support these programs because they are real help – real solutions.”
These solutions are found in the secular social betterment methodologies developed by humanitarian L. Ron Hubbard. The programs provide life-skills and criminal reform courses in a program called Criminon, a drug-free drug rehabilitation program called Narconon, Applied Scholastics International’s education and literacy programs, and The Way To Happiness Foundation for reversing the decline of moral standards. ABLE has serviced millions of people through their nearly 1000 programs in 121 countries.
Chicago’s Criminon group has provided services to 800 inmates in 58 prisons in Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa, Michigan and Missouri. There is also a program in the Illinois Youth Center, which began in 2005 endorsed by State Representatives and Senators which is servicing 47 juveniles with 20 having graduated various of the programs that are offered.
Joining Ms. Nichols to help launch ABLE Chicago’s two-day exhibit are Illinois State Representative and co-Founder of the Illinois Legislature's Hispanic Caucus Edward Acevedo and ABLE International President Rena Weinberg.
The World Solutions exhibit is the first of its kind, comprising 2,700 square feet of state-of-the-art displays with video, each describing ABLE-supported social betterment programs. As well, the exhibit accommodates a seminar room and a film room to aid training.
ABLE International President Rena Weinberg said the World Solutions Exhibition offers not only workshops and training sessions as an orientation to the Hubbard-based social betterment programs but also a Needs Assessment service to help local, regional, provincial and federal agencies tailor programs to suit their specific needs.
For information on the ABLE World Solutions Exhibition, contact Dan Drach at (312) 218-2114. For information on Ms. Nichols’ media availability, contact ABLE International President Rena Weinberg at (323) 823-2062.
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